Review Good/Bad vs West Coast, R24 2023

[Eagleboy2011]

The Essendon game is the one that stings.

They blitzed us early, but we are a better team.

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Throw in 2 x GWS and 1 x GCS where we should have won.

 

[FR0GGY]

2 x GWS and 1 x GCS where we should have won.

And one of the collingwood loses

 

[The Smith Revolution]

Good - We managed to win without Sloane

 

[Crow_68]

I would suggest most of the handballs were to our advantage.

Crouch’s use by hand was very, very good.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

The Essendon game is the one that stings.

They blitzed us early, but we are a better team.

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Essendon's grand final. Downhill since then.

 

[The Perfect Stranger]

Good - We managed to win without Sloane

Thankfully this is something we will not have to worry about next year. "He's back".

 

[BACCS]

Feels like Hinge didn’t stand out that much tonight, but still had 23 touches (only 2 turnovers), 6 marks, 8 rebound 50’s and 8 intercepts

He’s become our new Mr Reliable

Hits up targets coming out of deep defense that very few can execute and usually opens up the field for us

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Crouch. He is a better inside mid. Hus distribution by hand to outside players is great. He is a 360 degree player.

Laird is really just a straightline player shoehorned into an inside mid.


Push Laird outside and keep Crouch inside.

No Sloane and keep Keays at HF.

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I actually think Dawson-Crouch is a very good combination. Just need to add a dynamic third element to it - Pedlar/Rankine/Rachele all with another Burgess preseason could be it if they can’t aggressively trade for an elite mid.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Our previous 5 matches. Win one of the losses and finals. A few similar results earlier in the year.


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More scoring shots in all those loses

 

[The Perfect Stranger]

The Bad.

Playing Parnell ahead of Nankervis. Why is Nick in love with these type of players (see Sholl)

Given it was a dead rubber not giving Dowling a taste of AFL football

 

[Trigger13]

Crouch’s hands were elite last night. Bullet handballs out of congestion is something we’ve lacked.

 

[cleanhands]

Crouch’s hands were elite last night. Bullet handballs out of congestion is something we’ve lacked.

It’s more of where they went I was more impressed with

 

[SugarShane]

Good technique as important as natural skill.
Some of our players need to work hard this summer learning a reliable set shot technique.
Keays, Murphy, Rankine, Pedlar all look to have undisciplined and lackadaisical method with set shots. Rach has had the yips lately but has a better technique.

Execution of a uncontested skill (golf, tennis serve, gymnastic routine, AFL set shots for examples) can be fine tuned to become a reliable and repeatable skill.

I'm hoping this is a strong off season focus.

Needs a lot of work. Loathe to suggest anything of the sort considering our last foray into the mental side but we seem to catch the yips as a side too.

One week we score 18.9, the next 9.18. If we miss early and often, it spreads through the team like a virus. All of a sudden instead of players stepping up to be the one to break the streak of behinds they usually panic and miss too. We really seem to struggle when we're a run of behinds and need to snap it.

 

[Bay62]

Pedlar’s strength and bullishness is Roo-like and Bone-like

Worthy wearer of the no 10

 

[tonzdogs]

I come in peace. Just want to say great year guys and cruelly been shafted by the AFL to miss finals the way it happened. You guys deserve it much more than my Doggies if we make it. Loved watching Tex’s last couple of years, what a great turn around in his career. You guys will be top 6 next year for sure. Love the way you blokes play. All the best for 2024

 

[SugarShane]

Tex also carried us all year. Once he starts dipping we are screwed.

This is my biggest fear about the whole "We're getting better, next year finals" thing. He has played a blinder of a year, but the body could go at any point.

 

[cleanhands]

I come in peace. Just want to say great year guys and cruelly been shafted by the AFL to miss finals the way it happened. You guys deserve it much more than my Doggies if we make it. Loved watching Tex’s last couple of years, what a great turn around in his career. You guys will be top 6 next year for sure. Love the way you blokes play. All the best for 2024

Don’t be shy…………… get a Melbourne membership

Cheers

 

[Trigger13]

This is my biggest fear about the whole "We're getting better, next year finals" thing. He has played a blinder of a year, but the body could go at any point.

What tex loses in the way of output will be counteracted by Thilly and Fog’s improvement.

I’m hoping.

Edit: and Pedlar’s.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Elite: Dawson's hard ball get on the forward flank, burst through the oppo and hitting up Gollant near the goal square.

That kick was perfection. Hit it long where Gollant's opposition had no chance.

 

[John Who]

It was a perfect display of horror goal kicking yips. Pretty much the summary of our season. When we play well and kick well, we look as potent as any team going around this year. Pity about the 20+ behinds and a few out on the full!

The progression of the young lads is the highlight for me, particularly in the last half of the match. We have a lot of potential A-graders coming through the ranks and if we can keep churning that organic growth over the preseason, it’s hopefully an exciting season ahead with some more kicking composure.

 

[DJ75]

38 frees for Charlie so far. Equal 8th in the league.

18 for Tex.

Do we know the goals from free kicks stats?

 

[DJ75]

Richmond winning tomorrow somehow would be a fantastic result in two ways. Wishful thinking I know

Richmond ended their season last week. All the big farewells etc. this week they will be witches hats.

 

[rabidcrow]

Needs a lot of work. Loathe to suggest anything of the sort considering our last foray into the mental side but we seem to catch the yips as a side too.

One week we score 18.9, the next 9.18. If we miss early and often, it spreads through the team like a virus. All of a sudden instead of players stepping up to be the one to break the streak of behinds they usually panic and miss too. We really seem to struggle when we're a run of behinds and need to snap it.

Hit the nail on the head. Our goal kicking on the face of it looks pretty good - as below. But when you factor in all shots taken (at least 10 shots in the season to get a ranking, 304 players currently ranked) we only have 3 players in the top 100

Tex 76.34. (53)
Rankine 36.27. (170)
Fog 34.23. (109)
Peds 25.15. (149)
Thilthorpe 18.9. (74)
Murphy 12.8 (208)
McAdam 12.4. (12)

And then - hard to believe Dawson is bottom 12 in the comp for goal kicking accuracy (including misses)

Keays 22.19. (177)
Rach 23.25. (229)
Dawson 6.15. (292)
Laird 3.10. (301)

And it is infectious. We had plenty of games where we kicked well for goal - but when we didn’t, it was usually really bad



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[CrowToon]

Richmond ended their season last week. All the big farewells etc. this week they will be witches hats.

I'm not under any illusions

 

[Gtowncrow]

Our previous 5 matches. Win one of the losses and finals. A few similar results earlier in the year.


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NOTE... Only in one of these games do we score more goals than points.
Our sometimes selfish shot selection and our frequent set shot flaws have contributed towards our missing finals.